One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

All oppression creates a state of war.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Stay focused

With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.

I've been very fortunate in my career.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want

The term ‘reconciliation’ describes the atonement as springing from the initiative of God Himself.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.